Mumbai, what can I say about it. It’s been more than 6 years since I moved to Mumbai. I instantly fell in love with this city. I don’t know what I like about this maximum city, is it loving friends or ever helpful people or excellent public transport or good food ( a self confessed foodie that I am ) or good opportunities for career growth, frankly speaking I really don’t know. But there are few things that I wish were different/change in this wonderful city.
In this post I would like to bring everyone’s attention to the corruption/bribing issues at domestic airport. Besides buses, rickshaw is the most common mode of transport in Mumbai. So it seems like every time a rickshaw that goes to drop passengers at the airport has to pay 10-20 Rs. to traffic police officer at the exit. In fact now a days when you get in the rickshaw for airport, rickshaw driver will ask for meter reading + Rs. 20 extra which he need to give it to the cop. In my opinion this is ridiculous.
So basically at the exit of departure cop will stop the rickshaw and will ask for the license and other details. Eventually he will take 10-20 Rs. and let go rickshaw driver. This has happened to me atleast 2-3 times when I went to drop my friends at the airport. Everyone knows about it and nothing is done to stop it. It seems like now it is part of the system.
I am not sure if there will be any action taken against such corrupt cops/practices. But I just hope someday someone will stop this and make Mumbai even better place to live and to be proud of.